The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-13

the month show gain of more than
thirteen per cent over the same period
in 1886.
THE transcontinental roads have
issued orders to continue present rates
indefinitely. This shows that the trans
continental lines have decided to ignore
the long and short-haul section of the
interstate law after the expiration of
the suspension granted by the interstate
commission, and will continue to make
lower rates from Pacific coast points
than from interior intermediate points
until the practice has been decided by
the United States courts to be contrary
to the law. This is in accordance with
the decision of the national railroad
commission that the commission has
no right to suspend the law, but that
the railroads themselves must deter
mine whether they may ignore section
four of the law or not, and if their ac-
ton is found to be illegal by the courts
they must take the consequences.
INDEED, nowhere along the party lines is
there principle in controversy of such pro-
that between President Cleveland seeking
to elevate and purify the public service and
great senators and politicians of his party
trying to force him to prostitute that service
for partisan ends.-Dormdn b. Eaton at
| burlington.
"The statement is not borne out by
the facts. On the question of the
tariff, as between protection and reve-
nue., the republicans in congress are
more nearly a unit than they were upon
any great measure of the war. Upon
the matter of fair and free suffrage
they are a unit On the questions of
constructing a modern navy and of en-
couraging the establishment of Ameri-
can lines of steamships by system of
subsidies the republican party is we'll
nigh a unit. "-Boston Journal. The
Journal might well have added that
there is no issue between Mr.. Cleve-
land and his party. In view of all the
facts, the talk of Mr.. Cleveland seeking
to elevate and purify the public service
is too funny for anything.
IT is false to accuse the republican
party of a desire to restore war meth
DDS and conditions. Nothing could be
further from its desire. But it does
desire to preserve the fruits of the war
unimpaired. 1t does desire that the
rising generation all over the country
shall be made to understand that the
North was right and the South was
wrong touching rebellion. 1t does de-
sire that treason shall continue to be
regarded as treason and branded as obi
Gus. 1t does desire that the new South.
like the old North, shall be devoted to
the old flag in all that the old flag i'm
plies. 1t does desire to see the rebel
flags remain where the bows in blue
have deposited them. 1t does desire
to see southerners who protest that
their section is as patriotic to-day as any
other section set the seal of their con-
domination upon such false and incen-
diary utterances as the following, which
lately appeared in the Charleston Necs
and Courier: " 1t is realized now, de-
spite the stolid deafness and wilful blum
ders of the few, that secession was not
treason and that the confederates were
not traitors. "-Tribune.
THE mugwump papers which have
started off again in full cry after Mr..
Blaine on the strength of an allusion
to " Blaine of Maine" in the Union
Pacific memorandum will be interested
in the following extract from the New
York San, the paper which published
the list in full:
We suppose that to a majority of those
who have examined this remarkable cor
ruption list the most interesting entry is
that which charges Blaine of Maine " with
| two hundred shares of worcestershire stock
valued at $4,000, and marks him Right"
While there are no initials which identify
the recipient Of the bounty as the Hon
James &. Blaine, the natural assumption
would be that he was meant. We respect
fully warn all mugwumps and others against
drawing hasty conclusions with reference
ing in Europe. This is not another Mulligan
public purposes, only one Blaine of Maine. i"
but that was not the case when the con
fidential statement was prepared. The
congress that passed the Pacific railway act
was the thirty-seventh. Mr.. James G..
Blaine served his first term in the thirty
eighth.
The Sun'S warning comes too late to
save the mugwump papers from dis
playing their malignity, but it is singular
that none of them discovered that when
these transactions occurred, in 1862,
Mr.. Blaine was not in congress nor in
any Office. journal.